Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin An anti-tourism placard during recent demonstration. Thousands of people gathered to protest ..
. [+] against the Formula 1 car exhibition and the Fan Festival in the city center that has caused enormous traffic jams and air pollution. Protesters demand that the city should not be for sale to big elitist commercial brands.
Photo by Paco Freire SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Simply put, the Spanish city of Barcelona and its inhabitants are fed up with over-tourism and are taking up extreme measures to say “enough is enough”: from angry protesters firing water pistols at unsuspecting tourists and red-taping the entry to hotels and restaurants, to local government pledging to freeze short-term rentals. The water squirting, which happened on Saturday and has garnered more attention from the international media than most of the many demonstrations of recent months, was actually limited in scope and directed at diners sitting outside restaurants in the popular Ramblas district as protesters yelled “tourists go home.” Forbes 'Tourismphobia': Protests, Bans, Fees, And Fines At European Hotspots To Keep Visitors Away By The action was part of a larger movement that brought together more than 2,800 protesters, according to official reports — 20,000, said organizers — under the banner “Enough! Let’s put limits on tourism,” and calling for controls on the number of visitors and for the implementation of a sus.
